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BigOrange1

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  1. teams i'm most interested in tonight:

    cleveland (via brooklyn) - if that pick moves to the top 3, what does that do for their efforts to keep lebron?

    boston/philly (via the lakers) - if i'm understanding the trade correctly, if this pick moves up to #1 or stays at #10, it's philly's.  if it moves up to #2 or #3, it's boston's.  imagine boston adding the #2 or 3 pick to this core...

    the mavs - as a rockets and longhorns fan, i don't want them to get mo bamba so i'm rooting for whatever has to happen that makes that outcome the least likely.

    phoenix - they've been awful for years now, but they do have a couple of nice young pieces in booker and jackson.  can they add the #1 pick in the draft to that core?

    also, it's extremely unlikely, but it'd be hilarious if the pick the clippers got from detroit for blake griffin moved up to the top 3.

  2. i saw that good magic is running in the preakness, so the top 2 derby horses will be there.  i really liked the way good magic finished the derby so hopefully we can get a good race between him and justify on saturday.

  3. 4 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Yeah, that's a lot, but he's a young guy, seems like a good dude, and is perfect for the D'Antoni offense. I figure if it's between him and CP3, they gotta keep Clint, and hope CP3 is willing to work with them on a lower long-term payment plan. 

    As a Rockets fan, I would prefer not to give Clint the full max if they don't have to, but they are better off matching someone else's deal than giving him the max from their end. I hope he keeps getting better, it's crazy to think he turns 24 this week. 

    yeah i could be wrong, but to me it feels like it'd be better for the rockets to match a 4 year max from another team rather than give a 5 year max of their own. 

  4. i just don't see how anyone can watch the last 2 years of durant playing basketball compared to the last 2 years of the thunder playing basketball and not immediately understand why he wanted to GTFO of there.  

    i mean it totally sucks that he (and the warriors) stacked the deck so much that it's taken basically all of the drama out of the later rounds of the playoffs, but once lebron made it ok to do back in 2010 it shouldn't be that surprising that someone followed in his footsteps.  

    and i said it back on the day he decided to go to the warriors and i still believe it's true, once he's won a few championships as the best player on the court, only a very vocal minority is going to care much about the move that got him there.

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  5. 4 hours ago, ernest_t_bass said:

    KD wasn't guarded?  LOL.  It seemed like he made a ton of fade-aways and mid-range jumpers with a hand in his face.

    yeah anyone who says the rockets played poor defense on durant is simply looking at his box score and didn't actually watch the game.  guy was hitting contested mid-range shots like they were free throws.  it wasn't a lack of defense that lead to his big night.

  6. yeah the rockets can not be losing the turnover battle.

    also agree that capela needs to play more.   he wasn't in foul trouble (in fact, he didn't have any), not sure why he only played 30 minutes.

    ariza, mbah a moute and tucker have to play better.  way too many misses at the rim from those guys and 1/9 from 3.  just won't cut it.

    and it'd be nice if they could get anything at all from ryan anderson and his $20 million salary.

  7. tonight is deflating because if you had told me before the game that harden, paul, capela and gordon would combine to score 91 points on 34/61 shooting, i absolutely would have expected the rockets to win the game.

    i'm not giving up, but everyone is going to have to contribute in order to beat the warriors.  

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